Distance Learning in Higher Education: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Cacault, Maria Paula; Hildebrand, Christian; Laurent-Lucchetti, Jérémy; Pellizzari, Michele

doi:10.1093/jeea/jvaa060

Cited by 51 publications

(30 citation statements)

References 29 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…However, especially at the beginning of the term, online teaching was less effective, likely because both students and lecturers had to get used to the new teaching methods and to the overall situation of the pandemic. Cacault et al (2019) find that high-skilled students benefit more from online teaching compared to low-skilled students; our quantile regressions show the opposite in times of the pandemic. Likely that is because, in our data, student attendance is positively correlated with performance.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 57%

See 1 more Smart Citation

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Teaching Outcomes in Higher Education

et al. 2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The COVID-19 pandemic forced much of the world to adapt suddenly to severe restrictions. In this study, we attempt to quantify the impact of the pandemic on student performance in higher education. To collect data on important covariates, we conducted a survey among first-year students of Microeconomics at the University of Cologne. In contrast to other studies, we are able to consider a particularly suitable performance measure that was not affected by the COVID-19 restrictions implemented shortly before the start of the summer term 2020. While the average performance improves in the first term affected by the restrictions, this does not apply to students with a low socioeconomic background. Trying to identify more specific channels explaining this finding, interestingly, our data yield no evidence that the average improvement results from the altered teaching formats, suggesting instead that the enhanced performance stems from an increase in available study time.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 57%

“…According to Bowen et al (2014), hybrid systems have the potential to achieve at least equivalent outcomes. Another recent study is conducted by Cacault et al (2019). They find that online livestreaming of classes increases the performance of high-achieving students, while the opposite is true for low achievers.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Teaching Outcomes in Higher Education

et al. 2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Since the outbreak of COVID-19, researchers and policymakers have focused their attention on its short-term aspects (Barro et al, 2020;Binder, 2020;Fetzer et al, 2020;Fornaro and Wolf, 2020), although some long-term mechanisms have been indicated, like those operating on human capital (Cacault et al, 2021) and women's fertility (Silverio-Murillo et al, 2021). Public debt levels will increase significantly (Chakrabarty and Roy, 2021), and the zero lower bound constraint on interest rates will be still more biting (Costa Junior et al, 2021).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The long-term economic effects of pandemics: toward an evolutionary approach

Callegari

Feder

2021

Industrial and Corporate Change

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

COVID-19 has brought to the forefront of academic debates the consequences of pandemics and their appropriate policy responses. Using the PRISMA methodology, we provide a comprehensive review of the economic and historical analysis of the long-term economic consequences of pandemics. Mainstream economists focus on the impact of pandemics on production factors, finding a rich but contrasting set of mechanisms with overall negative or insignificant effects. Historians focus on the institutional impact, finding positive effects of pandemics when they trigger new socioeconomic arrangements. Evolutionary economists can integrate into the economic debate both historical elements and the complex biological characteristics of pandemics. We argue that the evolutionary approach provides new and fertile theoretical foundations to understand the phenomenon and develop effective policies.

show abstract

“…The assessing system for the part-time students is equivalent to the full-time students, as described in the section The Master's Programme in Visual and Performing Arts at OsloMet. Cacault et al (2019) performed a randomised experiment in a Swiss public university on the impact of distance learning technology via online live streaming of lectures on student performance and reported that: I. students use the live streaming technology only punctually, apparently when random events make attending in class too costly; II.…”

Section: Discussion In Relation To Relevant Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

FlexiDig – Flexible Digital Classroom

Reitan

Chaudhuri

2021

FormAkademisk

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article presents an ongoing research project regarding blended education; Flexible Digital Classroom (FlexiDig), and a survey on full-time and part-time students’ experiences with blended education in a master’s degree programme in Art and Design Education. To optimise educational resources, the lectures for the full-time students were recorded, including the dialogue between the students and the lecturers, and made digitally available for all students. Generally, both the part- and full-time students participating in the questionnaire expressed their experience as “satisfactory” for the availability of the recorded lectures. Moreover, the capture of dialogues in the recording was found to be extremely useful for better understanding and learning, according to the students. This idea forms a basis to develop FlexiDig as simple as possible with a transfer value to other educational situations based on the approach of Student-Centered Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (SCLT).

show abstract

Distance Learning in Higher Education: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Cited by 51 publications

References 29 publications

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Teaching Outcomes in Higher Education

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Teaching Outcomes in Higher Education

The long-term economic effects of pandemics: toward an evolutionary approach

FlexiDig – Flexible Digital Classroom

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About